@Brian Van De Walker Sherden would work better with the Egyptian line, but the Sea Peoples in general came from varied backgrounds, with many seeming to have thier origins around the Aegean. There...
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Trojan War Chariotposted in Vox Populi
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Raptor Cavalryposted in Vox Populi
Add me to the faction that would like lizardmen riders! I'm also liking the 'basic raptor' look. Yes, I know real world raptors were feathered, even the larger ones probably. But I think a lot of ...
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Trojan War Chariotposted in Vox Populi
I'm loving what I see here! My main critique would be: A) a hope that there are more potential warrior bodies B) a suggestion that at least one of these bodies, and perhaps a head option or two (...
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Gangs of Rome minis an opportunity for 'upgrade sprues'posted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
But sadly, doing it the conversion based way leaves out the two most important parts of kit for telling one force apart from another, the helms and shields. A quick hand & weapon swap is def a...
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Future fantasy sets (hero options)posted in Classic Fantasy
It would be fun to augment some of the blood oath and decline and fall stuff with fantasy/near fantasy offerings - an Arthurian themed set with some options for armored up late roman champions, as ...
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Gangs of Rome minis an opportunity for 'upgrade sprues'posted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
I considered just putting this in the main thread about these guys, but figured it might do better on its own. Basically, because the lower and patter parts of the body are two different pieces, I...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
@Brian Van De Walker I don't think you're really getting it - it's rarely about "who did it first" - it doesnt matter in the slightest. There is sometimes an inference that culture A influenced the...
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January Digital Theme open for suggestionsposted in Atlantic Digital
I mean, pretty much -it's not terribly often that history provides you with clear cut goodies and baddies, after all. Usually things have a lot more nuance. But also they are one of those things w...
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Lucid Eye to lose the Frazetta Death Dealer liscense?posted in General Chatter
You're welcome! My primary interest for Minis is in Hyborianesque settings, so I try to have my eye out for such things. On a side note, to fill up a sprue and make such a thing maybe have more m...
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Lucid Eye to lose the Frazetta Death Dealer liscense?posted in General Chatter
They say it's just limited time remaining on the liscense on thier website. If it's true, and they don't/can't renew... well, I'm sure I can't be the only person to want a multi part, multi option ...
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January Digital Theme open for suggestionsposted in Atlantic Digital
@Nanashi Anon For it's two fold - for starters, more female bodies to work with for conversions are always great, and on the other I'm always interested in new and different entities from sub-sahar...
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January Digital Theme open for suggestionsposted in Atlantic Digital
I'm a big fan of the Dahomey Amazons idea - it's one of the most interesting and unique options from the period. Though I would love it (as i would everything) evenmore in plastic lol
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Marian Late Republican Romans / Augustinian Imperial Romans?posted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
@Steffen Seitter Something good about scale armor and hellenistic helmets is that they would be useful for modeling Etruscan command staff, and perhaps more affulent soldiers using thier own equipm...
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General excitement for squamata (scale armor) legionariesposted in Decline and Fall: Imperial Rome at War 284-476 AD
@Steffen Seitter I think there is a lot talk about that, and it's a common sterotype - but it actually become really, really hard to reconcile how many mercenaries Western Rome was supposed to have...
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January Digital Theme open for suggestionsposted in Atlantic Digital
I mean, I'm of the opinion that the ancient powers of Mesopotamia - Sumeria, Babylon or at least mighty Assyria need some plastic love to begin with :D
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January Digital Theme open for suggestionsposted in Atlantic Digital
I would LOVE some Mesopotamian cult priests -Ishtar and Marduk would both be great to give a variety of male and female priests.
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January Digital Theme open for suggestionsposted in Atlantic Digital
Another fun idea: lovecraft through the ages. It could center on a set of hooded cultists universal for the theme, but then each range has it's own take on the high priesthood - some, like ancient ...
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January Digital Theme open for suggestionsposted in Atlantic Digital
I'll second the nude blood oath lady berserkers. I'm not typically a resin giy at all, but I'd buy them if it supported getting a plastic release of them. -However- I came here at first post the ...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
@Brian Van De Walker You have no idea what you're talking about, I don't mind calling you out on it. The Etruscans were not only an important ethnic group in the republic, but continued to be duri...
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"All Flavors of Cavalry"posted in Atlantic Digital
I've always thought how cool it would have been if giant birds could have been used as mounts. In practical reality that would have meant Diornis/Giant Moa of New Zealand or Elephant Birds of...
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December 2022 Themeposted in Atlantic Digital
@Caratacus FOr me, I think this is the place where they probably belong, as while I would love, love, love to see some good civilian choices in hard plastic.. I'm just not sure the market is there ...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
(All that said, there is a very clear trend of Byzantine and Islamic armories influencing each other, and both being influenced by Turkic tribes in the era of weaponry, though again the weapons the...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
@Brian Van De Walker It doesnt help that you keep shooting yourself in the foot with arguments that seem to pull everything eastward; like with armor design you state that Byzantine armor becomes i...
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Amazons!posted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
I know it's not the intended topic, but I would be very down for some Dahomey Amazons 😁
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Any news on the Thureophoroi front?posted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
@JTam They have been there for a long, long time though :(
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The Trojan War / Iliad / Odysseyposted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
@JTam Those Sea Peoples are exceptional, but they sure could use some Sherden allies... (wink wink, nudge nudge WGA ;)
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
The point that is being made pretty much over and over again is they are a hodge podge of different things, mostly western and in common with the back ground lore inspirations and influences that g...
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General excitement for squamata (scale armor) legionariesposted in Decline and Fall: Imperial Rome at War 284-476 AD
I would hope that too, but personally, I'll just be happy if by some miracle they and thureophoroi will come out early next year. I feel like this year got a big push of renaissance in the form of...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
@Brian Van De Walker It's just that I find your claims unrealistic; there's a pretty clear design evolution not only of how GW's elves look, but of the place they occupy in the lore, which is as ea...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
Where or when did I say that the Osprey books were the end all be all of armor research? You're putting words in my mouth, and I don't appreciate it. What I did was assume that Osprey books about ...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
I think you fail to appreciate how universal most elements of armor actually are, and how rare it is for any particular element to be associated with a single culture. -But- what we can say (or at ...
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Sets you are looking forward toposted in General Chatter
@Caratacus [Inregards to Victrix models] There is some variation over the years, with victrix undergoing it's own slight 'scale creep' with more recent models seemingly being pumpkin heads. I'm try...
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Future Kitbash: Hittite Armored Spearmenposted in General Chatter
I like the idea of it! There may be a need to swap out legs though.
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Sets you are looking forward toposted in General Chatter
My usages are mostly for 'low fantasy' skirmish and RPG's in Hyborian style settings - so that skiews the kits I'm looking forward to the most, lol. 1) Thureophoroi - they seem like they are gonan...
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General excitement for squamata (scale armor) legionariesposted in Decline and Fall: Imperial Rome at War 284-476 AD
@Mark Dewis The late Roman armies would have been a grab bag of absolutely everything and everyone in the Empire, and the the three tired system in use you've have troop pools of local garrisons, m...
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Any news on the Thureophoroi front?posted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
@James Cutts I too am HUGELY looking forward to the thureophoroi- just as much as the late legionaries actually. I'm hoping that early 2023 both of them might get released - the few previews for bo...
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General excitement for squamata (scale armor) legionariesposted in Decline and Fall: Imperial Rome at War 284-476 AD
@Big Boi I like having height differences (within reason) in my models, but also think some of the height stuff tends to be a tad over stated for various reasons.
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
I see your comparisons, but I'm just not seeing the relationship that you do. That high elf is pretty clear based off a mix of European Armor designs, from a Norman cone atop a Corinthian helmet, a...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
Fair enough! I didnt think they were that old!
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
@Brian Van De Walker It's worth pointing out that most of the design paradigm for High Elves came long before modern scolarship and Osprey books would begin to make knowledge of what Turkic warrior...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
@Brian Van De Walker From experience, many wargamers on a whole tend to lean towards more conservative ideas in so far as desire for products go. I think there is a certain degree of 'people don't ...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
I chose East Asian mostly because the modern concept of "the Elf" seems far more Japanese than it does Northern European. IE; a long lived race of wise practitioners of arts mundane, martial, and ...
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General excitement for squamata (scale armor) legionariesposted in Decline and Fall: Imperial Rome at War 284-476 AD
Victrix beat WGA to the punch for unarmored late Romans, though that probably wont stop me getting a kit (or at least a few sprues) for WGA unarmored guys - I'm hopeful that WGA will feel the burn ...
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Is the time right for 'Not-Numenoreans"?posted in Classic Fantasy
I would certainly agree that WGA could make better 'generic' fantasy than what fireforge or oathmark offer. And with shields now being on different sprues, there could well be armament options in g...
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Late Roman Unarmored Infantry WGA Blog Articleposted in Decline and Fall: Imperial Rome at War 284-476 AD
@Mark Dewis I think this is pretty close to the truth, and I think it prevents even other, newer British mini companies getting deals with them. I won't say which one -or if they are still around o...
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Is the time right for 'Not-Numenoreans"?posted in Classic Fantasy
@Brian Van De Walker I don't think your ever going to get away from plastic soldiers basically always being x-period warrior with a diffetne helmet. Even your examples boil down to a west europeans...
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Is the time right for 'Not-Numenoreans"?posted in Classic Fantasy
@Caratacus Using Byzantines as proxies is actually getting away from the point I was making, which was about making something more generic based on the top picture of the infantry. I agree that th...
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Is the time right for 'Not-Numenoreans"?posted in Classic Fantasy
As i said above -I'm very well aware of what the options out there are, and I stand by my argument. The options for basically anything realistic fantasy that isnt a GoT Stark stand-in are pretty fe...
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Is the time right for 'Not-Numenoreans"?posted in Classic Fantasy
If you want North Men, yes! If you want anything else, not so much. ;)
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